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In 1950, Alber began to specialise in the humanities with a strong historical focus, as evidenced by the “Orbis academicus” series and the “Saeculum” yearbook. The Görres Society entrusts Alber with the “Historisches Jahrbuch” in 1951 (in its 70th year, published by Herder since 2018) and the “Philosophisches Jahrbuch” in 1953 (in its 62nd year). From 1958 the series “Symposion” appears; the authors of the first volumes are Michael Theunissen, Ernst Tugendhat, Karlfried Gründer and Odo Marquard.

From 1969 to 1994, the publishing house Karl Alber develops into one of the leading publishers of contemporary philosophy under the direction of Meinolf Wewel. Under Wewel, various philosophical series are founded, of which the orange “Alber-Reihe Philosophie”, “Fermenta philosophica”, and “Praktische Philosophie” are particularly noteworthy. The publishing programme focuses on contemporary philosophy, the history of philosophy and phenomenology.

After a one-year vacancy in the publishing management, the publishing house will continue with a new team under the leadership of Lukas Trabert. The existing publishing programme will be expanded. Further yearbooks (“Heidegger-Jahrbuch”, “Rosenzweig-Jahrbuch”, “Jahrbuch für Religionsphilosophie”, “psycho-logik”, “Schelling-Studien”, “Jahrbuch Praktische Philosophie in globaler Perspektive” as well as “falsafa. Jahrbuch für islamische Religionsphilosophie”) are added, as well as a large number of newly founded series, such as “Angewandte Ethik”, “Ethik in den Biowissenschaften”, “Lebenswissenschaften im Dialog”, “Neue Phänomenologie”, “Scientia & Religio”, “Seele, Existenz und Leben”, “Beiträge zur Schelling-Forschung”, “Welten der Philosophie”, “Musikphilosophie”, “Kulturphilosophie”, “Whitehead Studien”, etc. Alber also publishes the Festschrift der Freiburger Universität, the complete edition of Eugen Fink and the Martin-Heidegger-Briefausgabe. Important authors of the publishing house are, among many others, Bernhard Casper, Rolf Elberfeld, Michel Henry, Markus Gabriel, Ute Guzzoni, Emmanuel Lévinas, Burkhard Liebsch, Jean-Luc Marion, Rainer Marten, Reinhard Mehring, Ryôsuke Ohashi, Paul Ricoeur, Otto Pöggeler, Heinrich Rombach, Richard Schaeffler and Hermann Schmitz.

Since 2021, Verlag Karl Alber has been modernising not only its programme, but also its digital product range. Since 1.1.2022, Verlag Alber has belonged to Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH und Co. KG Baden-Baden.